AP - Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another round of tropical weather for the second time in less than a month.
AFP - Beijing basked under another blue sky Sunday five days before the Games' opening ceremony, but forecasters warned of storms ahead as Olympic head Jacques Rogge fended off the IOC's own dark clouds.
AFP - At least 123 Hindu worshippers, many of them women and children, were killed Sunday in a stampede at a religious festival in northern India, police and officials said.
Reuters - Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved
the release of five Palestinian prisoners as part of a swap
deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group that brought
the bodies of two Israeli soldiers home.
Reuters - A roadside explosion in Mogadishu on
Sunday killed at least 14 people, most of them women who were
sweeping a street in the Somali capital, witnesses said. Nearly
50 people were wounded.
Reuters - Veteran quarterback Brett Favre has
been informed he can end his temporary retirement and return to
the Green Bay Packers on Monday, the NFL Network reported on
Sunday.
Reuters - At least nine climbers have
perished on K-2 in Pakistan in the worst day for mountaineering
on the world's second-highest peak, and the toll could rise
further, expedition organizers said on Sunday.
Reuters - The United States said on Sunday
that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to
increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands
that it halt sensitive nuclear activities.
Reuters - Despite long insisting that sports
and politics don't mix, U.S. President George W. Bush will have
a hard time keeping them separate when he visits China this
week for the Beijing Olympics.
Reuters - China allowed a first foreign orchestra
concert in Tiananmen Square on Sunday but also issued warnings
to would-be protesters in delicate efforts to show openness
while avoiding embarrassment at the Olympics.
Reuters - At least 145 people, mostly
women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of
thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern
India on Sunday, police said.
AP - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, whose office was a target of the anthrax attacks in 2001, said Sunday the suicide of the government's main suspect does not mean the case is over.
AP - The different paths John McCain and Barack Obama have taken to support expanded offshore drilling for oil demonstrate how each would govern as president, their supporters said Sunday.
